My graduate course, Writing for Electronic Communities is currently working its way through Richard Landow’s tome, Hypertext 3.0: Critical Theory and New Media in an Era of Globalization. This is my first time making my way through the third edition (published in 2006). Though it is always nice to go back and visit Storyspace…
From the great folks at CommonCraft, Twitter in Plain English: An excellent explanation of Twitter—better than I ever could do when talking with students about it—but I must say that I do miss the “Hmm Hmm Hmm” that began and ended their prior videos.
Via if:Book, the current issue of First Monday takes a critical look at Web 2.0. The table of contents: Preface: Critical Perspectives on Web 2.0 by Michael Zimmer Market Ideology and the Myths of Web 2.0 by Trebor Scholz Web 2.0: An argument against convergence by Matthew Allen Interactivity is Evil! A critical investigation…
In two of my classes this semester, Writing for Electronic Communities and Technologies and the Future of Writing, we spend some time thinking about mid-20th century predictions about the future of electronic technologies. We read Vannevar Bush’s (1945) "As We May Think," view Doug Englebart’s (1968) presentation that introduced the mouse, word processing, as…